Will Craft

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Maanvi Singh |Will Craft

Jorge, a 22-year-old asylum seeker from Venezuela, reported in February to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) field office in Portland, Oregon, for what he figured would be a routine check-in. Instead, he was arrested and transferred to a detention center in another state. Alberto, a 42-year-old from Nicaragua who had been granted humanitarian parole, checked in with Ice using an electronic monitoring program that same month. Three days later, he was arrested.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Will Craft |Maanvi Singh

US immigration enforcement officials arrested more people in the first 22 days of February 2025 than in any month over the last seven years, according to a Guardian review of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | George Joseph |Will Craft

Federal prosecutors have sent a criminal subpoena to a Manhattan hotel housing undocumented migrants through a New York City program providing shelter to asylum seekers, according to a copy of the filing obtained by the Guardian. The subpoena issued on Wednesday asks the hotel to provide “a list of full names of aliens currently residing” at the site as well as “any corresponding identifying information”, including dates of birth, nationality, and identification numbers.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Maanvi Singh |Andrew Witherspoon |Will Craft

At an immigration court in Pearsall, Texas, in front of a judge, government attorneys and a court interpreter, ES shakily recounted the darkest moments of his life. He explained how he had been arrested seven years ago in Turkey, amid his government’s crackdown on followers of Islamic cleric Fethullah Gülen. The police officers who detained him accused him of being involved in a terrorist movement, and demanded he reveal the names of his associates, he said.

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Will Craft

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) arrested more than 8,200 people between 22 January and 31 January, according to data the department is releasing on social media. The figures are the first public data into the new Trump administration’s promised mass-deportation efforts and are part of a new tactic from the administration to promote its efforts to fulfill Donald Trump’s campaign promise to detain and deport millions of undocumented immigrants.